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by jb775 6y ago
I actually think it's currently being done all over the place. For example, every time I merge on and off of a tolled highway (I live outside Philadelphia), there's a camera with a flash that takes a picture as I drive by. I don&#
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by jb775 6y ago
Facial recognition tech should really have more regulations in place. What if this was done at the recent protests and there's now a database full of facial data that associates those people with likely political affiliations, etc. Ima
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by jb775 6y ago
I think the public narrative not being kept congruent with actual supply levels is the main factor at play here. If everyone's talking about a shortage of toilet paper, you initially rush out to buy extra toilet paper, but can't f
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by jb775 6y ago
I wonder who the "activists" will blame when business investment moves to other cities, property values drop dramatically, and crime goes through the roof. I'm assuming whatever's in-vogue politically at the time.
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by jb775 6y ago
That's not a good analogy of my beliefs. A better analogy would be: If a supermarket that has a monopoly on cakes (and it's agreed that eating a variety of cakes is best), and the billionaire owner of the supermarket prefers vanil
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by jb775 6y ago
I respectfully disagree. When a handful of "private" companies control the dialogue of the populace, it becomes a defacto public service. Similar to anti-discrimination laws, "private" companies should have to respect th
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by jb775 6y ago
Hence the executive order to take the first step towards protecting free speech. Similar to anti-discrimination laws, "private" companies should have to respect free speech. Especially when a handful of those companies control the
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by jb775 6y ago
I attempted to do this in the past on namecheap for an Amazon domain based out of some obscure African country (domain was showing as available). The domain order failed, presumably due to reasons similar to authors Gibraltar example. I mes
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by jb775 6y ago
In your example, the people saying "won't someone think of the children" are the culprits of pedophrasty. Once you conceive the concept, you see it all over the place. See here for a more in depth explanation: https:/&#
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by jb775 6y ago
It's probably about time we start discussing as a developer community how to take meaningful actions to curb this behavior. Putting the particular topic details here aside, I think everyone can agree it's very troubling that a pla
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by jb775 6y ago
I understand being a moderator isn't easy. Definitely agree this conversation is mentally draining...I'm doing it because I care about what the underlying topic represents. > Why would it be a good idea to give them more mater
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by jb775 6y ago
Discussion was buried low the comments because it was "down-weighted" by the moderators: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223555#23225685
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by jb775 6y ago
The "more" pagination button appears to only be visible on the first page of comments....you need to update the URL manually to get to comment pages 3+
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by jb775 6y ago
100% agree that human confirmation bias is VERY strong and impacts HN. This is partially the reason why I'm so concerned with (human) moderators having the ability to impact visibility of stories/comments[1]. Also, definitely agre
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by jb775 6y ago
Definitely agree it's not sustainable to moderate these issues individually. But maybe it's a red flag that HN needs to change their approach to this issue? It feels like a "guilty until proven innocent" setup.
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by jb775 6y ago
Could not agree more, HN is taking the "we know best, so we ask that you blindly listen to us" highbrow approach. I lost 20% of my karma because I took a non-popular stance within a single thread lol. My stance was backed up by re
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by jb775 6y ago
We 100% see where you're coming from. Would it be crazy to request that HN create a publicly available list of "marked off topic / down-weighted / removed / flagged as duplicate" actions? I feel like HN could s
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by jb775 6y ago
How are the followings stats at all "ridiculous": Google controls 91.89% of the search market [1] G controls 68% of the browser market [2] G's android is on 84% of phones operating systems [3] G has 73% of the search advertis
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by jb775 6y ago
Think of a side project you would enjoy that includes a handful of these technologies and start building it. You will hit snags as you go that require deep-diving into rabbit holes, and this is where the learning happens.
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by jb775 6y ago
These "free" stock trading companies cut deals with high-frequency trading firms that buy order flow. The more order flow they buy the more money they make (essentially risk free to them), which is why they are willing to send boa
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by jb775 6y ago
> if Goog wasn't a majority "blue" company would he aggressively go after them Certainly can't help them. However, I think that's a moot point if everyone can agree they are the most troublesome company in the &q
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by jb775 6y ago
Is this technically considered insider trading? It's not like he found out a specific company was about to be acquired or something. He's probably going to argue it was publicly available information.
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by jb775 6y ago
These Paul Graham references are 12 years old, hasn't HN evolved a bit since then? Hasn't the world evolved a bit since then? I think "downvoting for disagreement" generally works on discussion related to non-sensitive t
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by jb775 6y ago
HN should require a reply in order to downvote, and downvoting should cause multiple lost points for the down-voter....and maybe down-votes should be publicly visible. I come here primarily to read discussion and to provide my unfiltered cr
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by jb775 6y ago
And by "Home", Twitter means that it expects all employees to move into the office.
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by jb775 6y ago
And by "Forever", Twitter means that it will require employees to upload their brains into cyborg host bodies and dispose of their human bodies.
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by jb775 6y ago
That isn't what I said. I'm saying that coronavirus is being listed as the primary cause of death in bad-faith. According to the CDC guidelines[1]: In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspe
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by jb775 6y ago
1.6+ million deaths YEARLY are directly caused by diabetes[1]. According to your logic, shouldn't the government mandate that all restaurants only be allowed to sell healthy foods? Better yet, let's have Google and Apple build an
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by jb775 6y ago
Exactly! So many people are missing that simple point and ok with giving up civil liberties the USA was founded on.
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by jb775 6y ago
Here is the direct url to the "Dead Sea Effect": https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws/blob/master/README.md...

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